With the exception of few names like Franco Moschino and Jean-Paul Gaultier who’ve always been big defenders of happiness and frivolity, fashion is generally blamed for taking itself too seriously. But self-mockery and fun seem to have taken over the industry lately.

'STARCH YOUR SUMMER' AND 'STARCH FOR EVER' WITH RABIH KAYROUZ AND TALA HAJJAR

02-06-2015

Elie Saab, Rabih Kayrouz, Zuhair Murad, to name but a few, have undeniably propelled Lebanon into the center of the fashion world. But young emerging designers are still struggling to make it in the industry.

For Mediterranean women like myself, hair occupies an important place at a very early age. Forget the bold, smooth, immaculate “Nestle baby” head; we ladies come to this world with a full haircut. I still remember my childhood friend’s reaction (she’s Swiss) when she opened my baby picture albums and went through the maternity section.

What’s interesting about this film is that the director takes us behind-the-scenes and chooses to do so in a very precise moment, when the couture house welcomes its new designer, Raf Simons. Far from being a rookie in Ready to Wear, his 2012 Fall/Winter Couture collection was however his first.

Fifty years have passed since André Courrèges and Mary Quant popularized the miniskirt. While it’s clearly a symbol of rebellion, sexual liberation and modernity, is it a symbol of youth? In other words is there an age to wear a miniskirt? How old is too old?

While I was listening to Fake plastic tree by Radiohead the other day, I wondered… Does gravity always win? Are fake breasts still in fashion? Can women still breast milk? And most importantly, is it ok to go braless? In fact, who can go braless full stop?

Each time I come back from the States or the UK I ask myself: why do the Anglo-Saxons have the monopole of the baseball cap? In the magazines it’s Jay-Z and Prince William, and on the streets it’s just everybody. From the high school boy to the full time mom, from the upper class teenager to the lower class teenager, all wear caps as often as jeans.